David Senra

I mean, there's so many people that have influenced me.

And that's what makes this all fun.

That's what makes what you and I do so fun is

I'm inspired constantly.

And you're doing this new show.

I interview people once a week, but really I interview like 10 people a day.

That's what I do.

I just happen to have mics there one of the times.

If I'm doing it 40 or 50 times a week, which is not an exaggeration, it really is that many people every week.

Just like, who are you?

What's your deal?

I love doing that.

And so there's just too many to name, but those are a couple that came to mind.

I'm, in the abstract, very interested in how can I create and control valuable, scarce units of attention and then dole those things out to the people that we believe in.

at a very high level, the reason we now have a magazine, which on its face, I think everyone would have agreed was a stupid idea or told me it was a stupid idea when we started it.

Why are we doing these profiles that take months or quarters or years to write and require lots of investment?

Why do them?

Well, the reason is I think it's just a beautiful way to shine the light beyond like podcasting on people that we admire.

And to teach someone, teach the world about a compelling founder or a compelling investor or artist or whatever.

And the thing that I didn't realize was that because I'm not writing the profiles, our amazing team is writing them, it would actually be a double whammy that not only when we started doing this, I went and read David Remnick, who's the long-time editor for The New Yorker.